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The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Montana Sen. Max Baucus, one of the most influential congressional figures of his era, announced his intention Tuesday to retire, a move that could produce sweeping changes in the political and legislative landscape over the next two years. The announcement could mark the beginning ...
Possible radioactive traces from a North Korean nuclear test in February have been detected for the first time, although it remains unclear what fissile material Pyongyang used.
A new political party in Germany that is opposed to the euro is emerging as an election-year wild card and a potential threat to Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose coalition government is ruling with a narrow margin. The small Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which ...
Italy’s center-left leader, Pier Luigi Bersani, on Friday told members of his party that he will step down after failing to push through his preferred candidate for president. Bersani, who has come under increasing pressure from his own party in recent weeks, said he ...
Italian lawmakers failed to agree on a choice for the country’s next president Thursday, and some cast prank ballots for porn star Rocco Siffredi and actress Sophia Loren. Parliament Speaker Laura Boldrini was quick to point out that Siffredi “does not have the prerequisites.” ...
Italy’s two main political blocs have agreed to back a former trade unionist for president ahead of voting in Parliament from Thursday, heralding a possible end to a two-month impasse on a new government. Pier Luigi Bersani’s Democratic Party, which won elections in February ...
The son of former Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade was set to discover Wednesday whether he is to be charged following his arrest after a probe into his vast fortune, which is valued at nearly $1.5 billion. Karim Wade, who held a number of Cabinet ...
Margaret Thatcher approved of a failed attempt to use an army of mercenaries to overthrow the president of Equatorial Guinea, according to the unpublished memoirs of the chief protagonist of the bid — former SAS officer Simon Mann. The former prime minister, whose son, ...
After reviewing 27,000 pages of documents from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Republicans and Democrats came to different conclusions about the agency’s ability to prevent one of the worst public health crises in American history. Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce ...
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers laid out an immigration reform proposal Tuesday that would provide a path to citizenship for millions of people who are in the country illegally. The most ambitious immigration reform in a quarter century has been a key focus ...
Millions of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. should be allowed to earn their citizenship because deporting them isn’t realistic, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said Sunday. Rubio, who has emerged as a leading supporter of revamping U.S. immigration laws, spoke on all five nationwide ...
Venezuela’s acting President Nicolas Maduro rose from bus driver to union activist and foreign minister, and now the man who calls himself Hugo Chavez’s “son” has succeeded his mentor in Sunday’s election. Named by Chavez as his political heir, Maduro ran a campaign that ...